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Glossary Noh 能

Kagami no ma

Mirror room. Final dressing room just behind the curtain at the end of the bridgeway (hashigakari)

Mirror room. The final dressing room for the shite situated just beyond the curtain at the end of the bridgeway, this area of the nō stage is equipped with a mirror and a slatted window for looking into the audience area. Performers gather in the mirror room before their entrances and the instrumentalists play their oshirabe here.